OutskirtsDaisuke Yokota

A hallucinatory night walk in the outskirts of Tokyo, where sleepy suburbia emerges as otherworldly dreamscape. The occasional eerie appearance of a girl evokes riveting imageries: could this be the backdrop for a nocturnal crime scene? Or are we drawn into a tale of irretrievable loss and love?

Lâmo Lâva Melanie Matthieu

Lâmo Lâva (old French patois for “Up there, down there”) revolves around a journey undertaken by Zürich-based visual artist Melanie Matthieu to the pilgrimage site of Our Lady of La Salette in the French Alps, where an apparition is said to have occurred in 1846.

MuseutopiaA Photographic Research Project by Ilya Rabinovich

Photography project of museums in Chisinau, Moldova. By putting a lens on museums in Chisinau, now and then, Ilya Rabinovich shows how a country in crisis is trying to grant itself a new history. The museums prove to be the places of prominence where this new national identity is contested.

Robert Smithson Art in Continual Movement

This book deals with the contemporary relevance of Robert Smitsons oeuvre. His seminal Land Art work Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (Emmen, The Netherlands, 1971) is treated as a case study which opens up to a number of actual topics in contemporary art.

Arnon GrunbergBrieven aan Esther

In the period leading up to the publication of his first novel Blue Mondays (1994), Arnon Grunberg maintained a written correspondence with a 'student' named Esther. Letters to Esther is the result of a unique collaboration between Arnon Grunberg and Alauda Publications. The entanglement of personal biography and professional development of both author and publisher, is a rare find in the book world.

Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off Mariken Wessels

Queen Ann. P.S. Belly cut off is the unfolding of a melancholic narrative of a woman, whose life seems to be dominated by her obesity. Yet the reader is never turned into a voyeur. ‘Queen Ann’s’ peculiar and touching photo collages of herself, expressing a longing for another ‘being’, are fused with the image that the book evokes around her persona.

Elisabeth – I want to eat -Mariken Wessels

Elisabeth – I want to eat – consists of a collection of anonymous photographs, letters and postcards belonging to a young woman, which the artist stumbled upon in a shop in the Hendrik Jacobszstraat in Amsterdam. Wessels appropriates the found material in her own way, by photographing the images, creatively processing and arranging them, as well as occasionally adding her own material.

Inverted CommasPostcards on books

‘Inverted Commas’ is the title of a set of 16 postcards containing quotes on books, paper and the print world. The pithy, humorous, and poignant quotes are selected from a wide range of famous and lesser known international sources. The postcards are printed in letterpress on embossed design paper and feature a digitally reproduced 17th century font. The booklet format allows for both a compact overview as well as easy removal. The postcards speak to the hearts of bibliophiles: they are suitable as quotes to hang on the wall, to post with a memorable note along with a gift of a book, or simply to keep on a shelf and read for inspiration.

Lâmo LâvaMelanie Matthieu(signed)

Lâmo Lâva (old French patois for “Up there, down there”) revolves around a journey undertaken by Zürich-based visual artist Melanie Matthieu to the pilgrimage site of Our Lady of La Salette in the French Alps, where an apparition is said to have occurred in 1846.

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Alauda Publications is a small publishing house in the field of contemporary art, culture and theory. Our aim is to publish works, in which form and content meaningfully interrelate. A close collaboration with artists, authors and art institutions is crucial to us, both in commissioned works as well as in initiatives proposed by others. Read more